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* {{Calacas}}: The opening section takes place during Día de Muertos, and the film's credits display a parade of Calaca marionettes.
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* AdaptedOut: The Taskeron family, and Geoffrey's friends Jacques Laruelle and Juan Cerillo. [[CompositeCharacter Some of Laruelle's dialogue is given to Dr. Vigil and Hugh]].
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* AdaptedOut: The Taskeron family, and Geoffrey's friends Jacques Laruelle and Juan Cerillo.Cerillo are all cut out of the film. [[CompositeCharacter Some of Laruelle's dialogue is given to Dr. Vigil and Hugh]].
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* DepravedDwarf: The owner of the local brothel who extorts Geoffrey for all his money, [[spoiler:then has him killed.]]
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* DullSurprise: Geoffrey's constant inebriation makes him underreact to severe situations, [[spoiler:including an immediate and direct death threats.]]
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* DullSurprise: Geoffrey's constant inebriation makes him underreact to severe situations, [[spoiler:including an immediate and direct and imminent death threats.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Sinarquistas. [[PlayedWith Played with]], since as Hugh points out, they are be funded by the ''actual'' Nazis.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Sinarquistas. [[PlayedWith Played with]], since Sinarquistas, though as Hugh points out, they are be funded by the ''actual'' Nazis.
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* DirtyCop: The local police chiefs are in the pockets of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi-adjacent]] Sinarquistas, [[spoiler:and are willing to commit murder to cover-up their crimes.]]
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* JadedWashout: Since resigning his consulship, Geoffrey has resorted to binge drinking and rambling about his glory days as a Naval captain during World War I.
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* ContemplateOurNavels: But quite poetically
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* ChummyCommies: Hugh's old comrades from the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar. Geoffrey and Yvonne both find the idea amusing.
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* DrowningMySorrows
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* Myth/{{Faust}} - has parallels with that story
* FormerChildStar - Yvonne's short-lived teenage acting career
* DownerEnding - [[spoiler:Including TheHeroDies]]
* DrowningMySorrows
* ExtremelyShortTimespan - apart from the first chapter, all of the book takes place in less than one day
* Myth/{{Faust}} - has parallels with that story
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*DownerEnding - DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Including TheHeroDies]]
*DrowningMySorrows
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!!'''This book provides and its film adaptation provide examples of:'''
*TheAlcoholicTheAlcoholic: Geoffrey Firmin, to a T.
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An earlier version from 1940 exists, but was roundly rejected by publishers, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen prompting a rewrite]]. A film adaptation was made by Creator/JohnHuston in 1984.
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An earlier version from 1940 exists, but was roundly rejected by publishers, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen prompting a rewrite]]. A film adaptation was made by Creator/JohnHuston in 1984.
1984, starring Creator/AlbertFinney and Creator/JacquelineBisset.
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* OneHitWonder - Lowry wrote other books, but none are nearly as well regarded as this one
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''Under the Volcano'' was strongly influenced by Creator/JamesJoyce and ''{{Ulysses}}'', featuring stream-of-consciousness prose and recurring symbolism. However, the linguistic experiments are far less extensive.
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''Under the Volcano'' was strongly influenced by Creator/JamesJoyce and ''{{Ulysses}}'', ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'', featuring stream-of-consciousness prose and recurring symbolism. However, the linguistic experiments are far less extensive.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - the book is rife with Kabbalistic and other occult references
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A modernist novel written by English author Malcolm Lowry and published in 1947.
''Under the Volcano'' was strongly influenced by Creator/JamesJoyce and ''{{Ulysses}}'', featuring stream-of-consciousness prose and recurring symbolism. However, the linguistic experiments are far less extensive.
Taking place on the Day of the Dead, 1938, in Mexico, it is the story of alcoholic British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin; his estranged wife, Yvonne, and his younger brother, Hugh.
An earlier version from 1940 exists, but was roundly rejected by publishers, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen prompting a rewrite]].
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!!'''This book provides examples of:'''
* TheAlcoholic
* ContemplateOurNavels - but quite poetically
* DownerEnding - [[spoiler:Including TheHeroDies]]
* DrowningMySorrows
* ExtremelyShortTimespan - apart from the first chapter, all of the book takes place in less than one day
* {{Faust}} - has parallels with that story
* FormerChildStar - Yvonne's short-lived teenage acting career
* TheMasochismTango
* OneHitWonder - Lowry wrote other books, but none are nearly as well regarded as this one
* SiblingRivalry - of a sort; for one thing, Geoffrey and Hugh are both romantically interested in Yvonne
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - in addition to the alternate version mentioned above, Lowry intended for the book to be part of a larger cycle. [[AuthorExistenceFailure He didn't get very far.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - the book is rife with Kabbalistic and other occult references
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''Under the Volcano'' was strongly influenced by Creator/JamesJoyce and ''{{Ulysses}}'', featuring stream-of-consciousness prose and recurring symbolism. However, the linguistic experiments are far less extensive.
Taking place on the Day of the Dead, 1938, in Mexico, it is the story of alcoholic British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin; his estranged wife, Yvonne, and his younger brother, Hugh.
An earlier version from 1940 exists, but was roundly rejected by publishers, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen prompting a rewrite]].
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!!'''This book provides examples of:'''
* TheAlcoholic
* ContemplateOurNavels - but quite poetically
* DownerEnding - [[spoiler:Including TheHeroDies]]
* DrowningMySorrows
* ExtremelyShortTimespan - apart from the first chapter, all of the book takes place in less than one day
* {{Faust}} - has parallels with that story
* FormerChildStar - Yvonne's short-lived teenage acting career
* TheMasochismTango
* OneHitWonder - Lowry wrote other books, but none are nearly as well regarded as this one
* SiblingRivalry - of a sort; for one thing, Geoffrey and Hugh are both romantically interested in Yvonne
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - in addition to the alternate version mentioned above, Lowry intended for the book to be part of a larger cycle. [[AuthorExistenceFailure He didn't get very far.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - the book is rife with Kabbalistic and other occult references
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